Gehl Studios in San Francisco created a project they called The National Street Service, designed to make people stop and think about streets as public space and how we interact with each other in that space. I was invited to collaborate on the part of the project that was specifically about fostering more empathy on the street. This became a site-specific non-narrated audio installation at 16th and South Van Ness. That's where, in 2013, 21-year-old, Dylan Mitchell was struck and killed on his bike while on his way to work. I had the honor of talking to Dylan's mother, Julie, about her son, his life, his death, and what street safety means to her now.

This is the first year I entered KCRW's 24 hour Radio Race (along with co-conspirator, Erik Neumann) and it was an exhausting and exciting whirlwind! We were up against the ticking clock as we tried to create sound design for the piece, so it suffered a bit. But Steve Fisher's journey is amazing nonetheless. So take a listen below if you have a minute!

Ghazwan al-Sharif talks about memories of his Iraqi hometown, Tikrit, his work as a translator for the U.S. Army, the bombing of his house, his journey as a refugee through Jordan and finally to the United States.